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GPT-5.1 vs GPT-5.4 vs GPT-5.5
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Winner summary
GPT-5.5 wins on 27/34 benchmarks
GPT-5.5 wins 27 of 34 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · arena.
Category leads
agentic·GPT-5.5reasoning·GPT-5.5arena·GPT-5.5knowledge·GPT-5.5general·GPT-5.5math·GPT-5.5coding·GPT-5.5speed·GPT-5.4
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
GPT-5.1
#157 by perf·#9 by attention
GPT-5.4
#110 by perf·#9 by attention
GPT-5.5
#64 by perf·#9 by attention
Best value
GPT-5.1
1.4x better value than GPT-5.4
GPT-5.1
8.4 pts/$
$5.63/M
GPT-5.4
6.0 pts/$
$8.75/M
GPT-5.5
3.3 pts/$
$17.50/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
34 benchmarks · 3 models
GPT-5.1GPT-5.4GPT-5.5
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.7
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
GPT-5.1
17.5
GPT-5.4
52.4
GPT-5.5
55.1
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.5 leads by +1.3
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.1
72.8
GPT-5.4
93.7
GPT-5.5
95.0
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.5 leads by +11.0
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5.1
17.6
GPT-5.4
74.0
GPT-5.5
85.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.5 leads by +12.0
GPT-5.1
1438.5
GPT-5.4
1464.8
GPT-5.5
1476.8
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.5 leads by +15.8
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5.1
39.0
GPT-5.4
45.3
GPT-5.5
61.1
Cl Bench Life
GPT-5.5 leads by +0.5
GPT-5.1
17.3
GPT-5.4
21.7
GPT-5.5
22.2
DeepResearch Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +11.2
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
GPT-5.1
42.8
GPT-5.4
35.1
GPT-5.5
54.0
Dtbench
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.7
GPT-5.1
83.5
GPT-5.4
90.7
GPT-5.5
93.3
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +4.1
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.1
31.0
GPT-5.4
47.6
GPT-5.5
51.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +8.3
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.1
12.5
GPT-5.4
27.1
GPT-5.5
35.4
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +1.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.1
87.0
GPT-5.4
94.9
GPT-5.5
95.8
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +8.8
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
GPT-5.1
13.7
GPT-5.4
31.4
GPT-5.5
40.2
Lmca
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.7
GPT-5.1
51.6
GPT-5.4
61.1
GPT-5.5
63.9
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-5.5 leads by +20.9
GPT-5.1
10.8
GPT-5.4
30.6
GPT-5.5
51.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5.1
88.6
GPT-5.4
97.8
GPT-5.5
100.0
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.5 leads by +15.0
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5.1
48.0
GPT-5.4
45.1
GPT-5.5
63.0
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5.5 leads by +3.7
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
GPT-5.1
68.0
GPT-5.4
76.9
GPT-5.5
80.6
Terminal Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.9
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency.
GPT-5.1
47.6
GPT-5.4
81.8
GPT-5.5
84.7
WeirdML
GPT-5.5 leads by +24.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5.1
60.8
GPT-5.4
57.4
GPT-5.5
84.9
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
GPT-5.4 leads by +24.6
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
GPT-5.4
69.4
GPT-5.5
44.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
GPT-5.5 leads by +17.6
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
GPT-5.4
57.3
GPT-5.5
74.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
GPT-5.4 leads by +2.3
GPT-5.4
57.2
GPT-5.5
54.8
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
GPT-5.4 leads by +54.0
GPT-5.1
1341.0
GPT-5.4
1395.0
Cl Bench
GPT-5.4 leads by +4.2
GPT-5.1
23.7
GPT-5.4
27.9
Deepswe
GPT-5.5 leads by +15.3
GPT-5.4
51.8
GPT-5.5
67.0
Ebr Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +8.9
GPT-5.4
25.4
GPT-5.5
34.3
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +23.5
GPT-5.4
49.0
GPT-5.5
72.5
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +7.0
GPT-5.4
82.7
GPT-5.5
89.8
Furniture Assembly
GPT-5.5 leads by +9.5
GPT-5.4
10.7
GPT-5.5
20.2
HLE
GPT-5.4 leads by +13.2
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
GPT-5.1
19.8
GPT-5.4
33.0
Mirrorcode
GPT-5.4
23.3
GPT-5.5
23.3
PostTrainBench
GPT-5.5 leads by +3.6
GPT-5.4
20.2
GPT-5.5
23.9
Proofbench
GPT-5.4 leads by +6.0
GPT-5.4
56.0
GPT-5.5
50.0
SimpleBench
GPT-5.5 leads by +19.0
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
GPT-5.1
43.8
GPT-5.5
62.8
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | GPT-5.4 | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
APEX-Agents APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments. | 17.5 | 52.4 | 55.1 |
ARC-AGI ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization. | 72.8 | 93.7 | 95.0 |
ARC-AGI-2 ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data. | 17.6 | 74.0 | 85.0 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1438.5 | 1464.8 | 1476.8 |
Chess Puzzles Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities. | 39.0 | 45.3 | 61.1 |
Cl Bench Life | 17.3 | 21.7 | 22.2 |
DeepResearch Bench DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses. | 42.8 | 35.1 | 54.0 |
Dtbench | 83.5 | 90.7 | 93.3 |
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning. | 31.0 | 47.6 | 51.7 |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning. | 12.5 | 27.1 | 35.4 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 87.0 | 94.9 | 95.8 |
GSO-Bench GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues. | 13.7 | 31.4 | 40.2 |
Lmca | 51.6 | 61.1 | 63.9 |
Mystery Game Puzzles | 10.8 | 30.6 | 51.5 |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills. | 88.6 | 97.8 | 100.0 |
SimpleQA Verified SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information. | 48.0 | 45.1 | 63.0 |
SWE-Bench verified SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability. | 68.0 | 76.9 | 80.6 |
Terminal Bench Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. | 47.6 | 81.8 | 84.7 |
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns. | 60.8 | 57.4 | 84.9 |
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?" | n/a | 69.4 | 44.9 |
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads. | n/a | 57.3 | 74.9 |
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index | n/a | 57.2 | 54.8 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding | 1341.0 | 1395.0 | n/a |
Cl Bench | 23.7 | 27.9 | n/a |
Deepswe | n/a | 51.8 | 67.0 |
Ebr Bench | n/a | 25.4 | 34.3 |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | n/a | 49.0 | 72.5 |
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | n/a | 82.7 | 89.8 |
Furniture Assembly | n/a | 10.7 | 20.2 |
HLE HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. | 19.8 | 33.0 | n/a |
Mirrorcode | n/a | 23.3 | 23.3 |
PostTrainBench | n/a | 20.2 | 23.9 |
Proofbench | n/a | 56.0 | 50.0 |
SimpleBench SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking. | 43.8 | n/a | 62.8 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens